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Permalink Reply by Justin Villar on November 23, 2011 at 11:24am

I bought a patch kit from there once, about a year ago. They didn't know where the kits were at first (turned out to be directly behind the person at the register -- wish I had spotted them BEFORE standing around waiting for them to find them), the guy was having trouble with the credit card machine and was being loudly berated by another guy for it (in front of a couple customers), and the woman who was waiting in front of me had been there for awhile too while they searched for grips. Their inventory looked almost haphazardly arranged on the floor and walls, it didn't seem grouped by any real system. The impression I got (this might be totally off-base) was that the owner wasn't really that into bikes and more into having a business, which, fine, but I'd rather go to a shop like Roscoe Village Bikes where you can tell everyone there is super stoked on bicycles and actually rides a lot. I guess what I'm saying is, I'm not that surprised that this place isn't doing very well, and I don't think it really has anything to do with the bad economy.

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